Sarah-Leigh Elago

... About yesterday evening. I took time to reflect, time to count stock of my life and just time to sit and commune with my inner man. The glory of life is simplicity. I swear! I took an oath to simplicity about two years ago and life has been perfectly imperfect. I dropped the wants of materialistic things. Honestly speaking, I am happy with little that I have. The highs of chasing after earthly things isn't for me at all. As long as I have good health, continue to develop and grow the girl child and the Afrikan youth, I am absolutely content with life. Yesterday, as I watched the sun set, I realized YET again how precious life is. How there are no guarantees in life. How each day ought to be lived as though it's our last day. I looked at the sun set and I was filled with a new love for God. God is infinite. He NEVER changes, the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. His love for us is unending, unconditional and unexplainable. There is no logic to the things of Christ, just F...

HELP! by Sarah-Leigh Elago Help! Help me! Anyone! Someone! I'm suffocating, I'm exhausted, I'm suicidal and lethargic, Help!  He grabs me, Pulls me in the dark, Tells me to shut up, Help me! He slaps me, He pushes me around, Slaps me some more and kicks me, I scream as loud as I can, HELP! Nobody came to my aid, No one came to my cries, None come to my screams, H E L P M E! He pushed me flat to the ground, Pulls my legs apart, He pulls my dress up, ... I stopped screaming for help! I knew, I knew I was done, I laid there like a zombie, His sweat dropping on me, Get it off, my inner man screamed!  Get your sweat off of me! When he was done, He looked at me as though he has conquered my soul, I felt so dirty, I felt like an abomination, as though I am a terrible person, I thought, I don't deserve to live! I told no one, I have safely locked up that memory, I know him, I see him, I swear, I want him dead!  He suffocates me, He...